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As a prequel to the centenary of the International Geographical Union in 2022, this paper discusses connections between New Zealand and the International Geographical Congresses as a site of knowledge creation from the 1870s up to the mid‐20th century. New Zealand featured initially as an example in the work of others at early International Geographical Union Congresses. There was fleeting New Zealand attendance before the country was represented by proxy as part of the British Empire delegation prior to the first direct university geographer attendance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We take a broad approach to thinking geographically, but a narrower view on the point at which thinking geographically is critically evaluated and assessed in our education system. The Scholarship Assessment Specification attracted our interest. The Scholarship is offered as the capstone assessment of a 3‐year Geography programme in New Zealand secondary education. We describe the institutions, actors and formats of Geography Scholarship. Our purpose is to promote thinking and scholarship as an integral part of the intellectual development of Geographers in contemporary education and beyond. Our concluding comments outline some of the options we think are available to Scholarship candidates and geography teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

John Turnbull Thomson is more known in New Zealand for his work as Chief Surveyor of Otago Province (1856-1876) and first Surveyor General of New Zealand (1877-1879). He was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London from 1848 until his death in 1884. Thomson was an important and early self-declared 'does' of geographer in New Zealand, prior to the establishment of university geography in 1937. Thomson's contribution included survey and mapping but he also gave public lectures on geography and contributed to debates about glaciation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the late 1940s, the Pacific islands have had a special place in teaching and research in New Zealand's university geography departments. This paper recalls some dimensions of a 'golden age' in the study of Pacific peoples by New Zealand geographers between 1945 and 1970. Attention is focused on the 'Cumberland' school of regional geography and some of the debates this generated in the 1960s. The paper concludes with a plea for the revitalisation of Pacific regional geography, especially in the light of the very different challenges that are confronting the islands in the 21st century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses three walking tour guides prepared for the 12th International Conference of Historical Geographers. It argues that the guides are innovative in terms of format, content and ironic sensibility. It construes them as devices for re-imagining Auckland's urban heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The governance of water encapsulates fundamental choices about how to mediate struggles between core values and interests across society. This Special Issue illustrates how New Zealand is driving frontiers of experimentation in water governance as well as theoretical innovation in water governance research. This scholarship pushes forward global thinking about the epistemological politics of water, transformations in decision‐making and the roles of non‐state actors in water politics. This research carries forward the longstanding interest of New Zealand geographers in freshwater politics, generating analytical insights of global significance and practical relevance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This review responds to Richard Peet's 'policy regimes' account of New Zealand's neoliberal experiment published in this volume of the New Zealand Geographer. It welcomes Peet's intervention, especially its comparative approach and its political economy focus, but suggests further insight may have been gained from closer engagement with the work of New Zealand geographers. The review argues that Peet misses opportunities to learn from the New Zealand case. The review subjects a 'northern' account of southern experience to a critique by 'splitting', a characteristically southern approach to analysing social change from the Antipodes that pays close attention to the situatedness of knowledge production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This introduction to the special issue on biography and geography in New Zealand reviews some of the existing biographical and autobiographical writing relating to the university discipline of geography in New Zealand. It then frames the five papers in this issue within the boundaries of haphazard events, mistakes and accidents, definitions of geographers and definitions of geography. While arguing for further research into disciplinary history in New Zealand, it is asserted that these endeavours are of value for the future of the discipline and not only a matter of concern for those interested in the past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our paper explores the early development of the New Zealand Geographer. We situate a series of continuities in its pages within the context of a wider Anglo-American regional orthodoxy and the articulation of a 'pragmatic sanction' for geographers in New Zealand. We argue that the journal cannot be separated from disciplinary disputes about the character and practice of geography in New Zealand. Consequently, we suggest that the journal can be understood in performative terms insofar as its pages were used to discipline academic geographers as it simultaneously aimed to satisfy a 'common curiosity' about New Zealand for New Zealanders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper traces some of the key contributions of Kenneth Cumberland to the making of the discipline of geography in New Zealand between the 1940s and the 1980s. It is structured around five themes: his early development as a geographer; his role in institutionalising the discipline, including his role in founding the New Zealand Geographical Society and this journal, the New Zealand Geographer; his scholarly work, especially as this relates to understanding changing landscapes; his roles in the politics of New Zealand geography; and his career long interest in popularising geographical messages, culminating in the Landmarks television series. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The New Zealand Geographical Society Early Career Research Network (NZGS ECRN) is a peer‐run network aiming to foster a welcoming and supportive environment for those who identify as early career geographers in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article highlights how the ECRN is working to find space for intervention and connection in an international context of precarity for early career researchers, as well as addressing the ongoing challenges of effectively representing the interests of a diverse and transient group of scholars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces the Distinguished Service Award received by Murray Fastier from the New Zealand Geographical Society in recognition of his long and outstanding service to geography education in New Zealand.

Geographical awareness and the imaginative impulse are sibling domains of human experience. We imagine the places we have yet to visit and allow ourselves to envisage differently those already familiar to us. This set of four essays extends presentations made at a Stout Research Centre ( Victoria University of Wellington) seminar in 2015, at which two geographers and two artists reflected on the connections between geography and imagination. Collectively they take forward a broader conversation between geography and the humanities, contributing to the emergent field of 'geohumanities'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author emphasizes the need for geographers in New Zealand to initiate and adopt on-going, practice-oriented debates about relevance and purpose. Topics covered include initiatives launched by geographers across the country that are renewing disciplinary identities, the public engagement of geographers and the assets that geographers need to develop.

The article offers information on New Zealand geography in 2008-2012. It says that the geography of the country operates under the umbrella of Te Apa&#257rangi, national agency which was founded in 1867. It mentions that the academic community and professionals geographers work in association with the New Zealand Geographical Society. It notes that geography role in environmental resource management and urban planning is reflected in the teaching commitment and research.

The article announces the Distinguished Service Award presented to Roger Baldwin by the New Zealand Geographical Society in 2011 for his significant contribution to geographical education in the country.

The article announces the Distinguished Service Award received by Dr. Garth Cant from the New Zealand Geographical Society in 2011 for his outstanding service to geographical education in the country.

The article announces the Distinguished New Zealand Geographer award presented to Professor Iain Hay by the New Zealand Geographical Society in 2011.

The article announces the awards presented by the New Zealand Geographical Society in 2011 including the Distinguished New Zealand Geographer Award to Professor Iain Hay and the Distinguished Service Award to Dr. Garth Cant, Roger Baldwin anf Murray Fastier.

The article focuses on professor James Anthony (Tony) Binns, one of the most distinguished geographers internationally and working in New Zealand. It says that Binns has completed terms as New Zealand of Geographical Society (NZGS) president. It mentions that Binns published 14 edited or authored books and served as consultant for tertiary educational organisations.